Re: [PATCH] xfstests: fix buffer overflow in lstat64.c

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:26:07PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> lstat64.c was putting an 11-byte string into a 10-byte buffer.

What about somthing like this instead?


Index: xfs-cmds/xfstests/src/lstat64.c
===================================================================
--- xfs-cmds.orig/xfstests/src/lstat64.c        2008-11-12 10:55:16.000000000 
+0100
+++ xfs-cmds/xfstests/src/lstat64.c     2008-11-12 10:55:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ int
 main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
        struct stat64   sbuf;
-       char            mode[10];
        int             i, c;
        int             terse_flag = 0;
 
@@ -78,6 +77,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
        time(&timebuf);
 
        for (i = optind; i < argc; i++) {
+               char *mode = "----------";
 
                if( lstat64(argv[i], &sbuf) < 0) {
                        perror(argv[i]);
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
                        printf("  Size: %-10llu", (unsigned long 
long)sbuf.st_size);
                }
 
-               strcpy(mode,"----------");
                if (sbuf.st_mode & (S_IEXEC>>6))
                        mode[9] = 'x';
                if (sbuf.st_mode & (S_IWRITE>>6))